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The Club was originally formed as Cockfosters Athletic in 1921 by local residents and the ground allocated to the Club by Lady Bevan, from her family estate.

Cockfosters Juniors merged into the club at the start of the 1930s, and they subsequently joined the Wood Green League. They won Division Two in 1931–32 and Division One in 1933–34. Season 1938/39 saw first of two “trebles” in the Club’s history, winning the Wood Green League’s Premier Division, League Cup and the Barnet Cup.

Following World War II the club joined Division One of the Northern Suburban Intermediate League, and after finishing as runners-up in 1946–47, they were promoted to the Premier Division.

Although they were relegated back to Division One a year later, they won Division One in 1949–50 to earn promotion back to the Premier Division. The following season saw them finish as Premier Division runners-up.

Cockfosters won Division One again in 1960–61 and, after being promoted, were Premier Division champions the following season.

In 1966 they joined Division One of the Hertfordshire Senior County League, and after winning it in their first season, they were promoted to the Premier Division. In 1968 “Athletic” was dropped from the club’s name.

The 1970s was one of the most successful in the Club’s history. They won the London Intermediate Cup in 1970–71, beating Clapton Reserves

2–1 in a replayed final. They won the Premier Division title in 1978–79, also winning the Herts Intermediate Cup and the league’s Aubrey Cup.

In the early 1980s Former Barnet player Jeff Voyce was appointed 1st Team Manager and the side claim their second Premier Division title.

In the 1983/84season Colin Bell took over as Manager and the 1st Team win the Premier Division for a third time. Colin decided to resign at the end of the campaign.

The 1984/85 season saw former Arsenal player Glyn MacDonald appointed as 1st Team Manager. Team win the HSCL’s Aubrey Cup and are Premier Division Runners-up. The 1989–90 season saw them win the London Intermediate Cup for a second time, beating Port of London Authority 1–0 in the final.

1990/91 saw the Club gain “Senior Status” with the 1st Team leaving for the London Spartan League Premier Division, bringing an end of 25 seasons of membership in the Herts Senior County League - all, but the first having been in the top flight - a period that saw the 1st Team as Premier Division Champions 3 times, London FA Intermediate Cup winners twice, the Herts FA Intermediate Cup winners once and finalists on 3 other occasions, HSCL Aubrey Cup winners twice and finalists twice.

The dawning of the new century saw youth football re-introduced to the Club starting with an Under 18 side and later teams at Under 13 and Under 15 age groups.

The Club introduced an Under 18 Youth side managed by Paul Boxer competing in the Southern Counties Floodlit Youth League.

With the elevation into the Spartan South Midlands League’s Premier Division in 2007/08 the Club accepted into the FA Challenge Cup for the first time in their history.

The 2013/14 season proved to be another successful one, with a very creditable 8th place & both the SSML’s Challenge Trophy and the South Midlands Floodlight (Senior) Cup won.

The Under 18s, managed by Paul Boxer and assisted by Steve Foot, won the Southern Counties Floodlit Youth League’s Nemean Division and were runners-up in the League’s Divisional Winners Play-Off Final.

2013 saw the Youth Section enhanced with a get together with Whetstone Wanderers. The Wanderers’ Under 15 & Under 16 teams played under the Cockfosters FC’s name in the Eastern Junior Alliance League.

This new ‘affiliation” expected to be a great benefit to both clubs and would provide a continuity of players moving up into our Under 18’s, Reserves and hopefully the 1st Team.

The 2014/15 season’s one bright spot was the displays of our Youth Section. The U18s were Southern Counties Floodlit Youth Lge. Olympian Division winners, beating Luton Town in the SCFYL’s Divisional Winners Play-off Final.

In 2015/16 The U14’s made a clean sweep of everything, winning the EJA’s Herts (Brown) Division, the EJA U14 Divisional Play-Off Final, the EJA U14 Challenge Cup and the Middlesex FA County FA’s U14 Cup.

The 2016/17 season saw the 1st Team finish 3rd (its’ highest ever position) in the SSML Premier Div. and the Reserves as R/up in the U25 Development Division.

The end of the 2017/18 season saw the U18s Runners-up in the SCFYL’s Delphian Division. The U13s won the EJA Herts (Green) Div. and won the AFA County Youth Cup as well as runners-up in the London FA Sunday Youth Cup.

At the start of the 2018/19 campaign Ryan Wade was appointed as 1st Team manager with Nick Mountford assistant / coach, both having played at a higher level of football. The campaign was disappointing, but the last 15 minutes of the season’s final league game saw them score 3 times to win 3-2 and narrowly avoid the drop.